Promoting Healthy Community for AAC Student-Athletes Grant uri icon

abstract

  • Building and maintaining a sense of community offers a range of social and health benefits for individuals and is crucial to creating a positive student-athlete experience. Using a two-phase approach, this study will first measure how a sense of community is being fostered for AAC student-athletes. Analysis of this data will then be used to identify how AAC athletic departments are providing social and mental health benefits and guide student-athlete focus groups to determine best practices. The results will be used to disseminate practical solutions that athletic departments can implement so that healthier community, and the ensuing individual well-being, is achieved.

date/time interval

  • June 2017 - December 2018